"Former Governor of Guizhou, Su Qianhe?"
The Jin Yiwei who was interrogating him asked.
"Yes."
Xu Xiang replied.
Chen An couldn't help but said:
"My true identity is the son-in-law of Chieftain Mangshi. My family makes money by selling gunpowder and firearms to him. However, he defected to the Burmese and Barbarians and followed the Burmese and Barbarians to raise troops. Naturally, our Chen family had to help, and we also intended to help him after he invaded Yunnan. Let’s share the profits together; therefore, as a Yunnan scholar, I found a job as a staff member beside Deputy General Zuo to spy on secrets.”
then.
The tea merchant who was caught smuggling firecrackers also revealed his real name, Gong Feng, and said:
"I am the domestic slave of Counselor Liang, but Nanjing Engineer Feng sent me here to remonstrate with him. Because he and Deputy Ambassador Chen are both our master's comrades, I will do something for him."
The traitor Yue Feng also said: "I will tell you everything! I was originally the son-in-law of Chieftain Duoning. Before that, I was a slave of the Lu family of the young uncle of Nanjing. I was ordered to pass on the skills of smelting fine steel and forging firearms in the name of Shangchuan Dian. Because of the chieftain and the Burmese and barbarians, he became the son-in-law of the chieftain of Duoning, and was ordered to urge Duoning to collude with the Burmese and barbarians to rebel against the imperial court!"
"It's just that Duoning didn't want to rebel against the imperial court, so I had to collude with the Burmese and barbarians to massacre the entire Duoning chieftain clan, and then I became the chieftain myself. I also sent my brother Yue Lan back to Jiangnan to contact the head of the family to admonish Feng Jinglong and ask him to help. Spying on news from the imperial court."
"I didn't expect that they killed my brother because they failed to burn food."
…
"drive!"
"drive!"
"Step aside!"
"Step aside!"
Soon, Jinyiwei's dedicated horse and step stations in Yunnan territory took Jinyiwei's express delivery to Beijing.
The reason for the existence of Buyi is naturally because the Yunnan-Guizhou Sichuan area is mountainous, and it is often inconvenient for horses to walk, especially some bird trails, which require strong local foot soldiers to undertake the Buyi to climb the steep mountain roads to deliver messages.
At the same time, the report of the Ming Dynasty's great victory in the first battle against Burma was also rushed back to the capital, and it was soon reported to the world through the "Di Bao" and the "Huang Ming Bao" printed by the imperial edict of the Supervisor of Ceremonies.
…
Nandu.
Feng Jinglong looked at the content of the additional issue of "Di Bao" and said to Lu Guangzu as if he were mourning his heir: "What a great victory! In the battle of Charlie Jiang and the battle of Yaoguan, Nanchang Bo and Deng Wuqiao cooperated so carefully!"
Lu Guangzu also had a sullen face, and suddenly he slapped the table and stood up: "Didn't Yue Lan say that his brother Yue Feng had invited a hundred thousand troops from Burma and Yi?! How could he be defeated so quickly!"
"Who knows? I don't know where Yue Feng is now."
As Feng Jinglong spoke, he looked at Lu Guangzu worriedly: "What should we do?"
Lu Guangzu smiled bitterly: "What else can we do? It's up to people to make things happen. At this point, we can only leave it to God's fate!"
Feng Jinglong said: "Why don't you leave your family and your official position and run away?"
"Where can I escape?"
"Besides, if it weren't for this black gauze hat, a government servant could kill you and me!"
Lu Guangzu asked a question and then said.
After speaking, Lu Guangzu looked at the river intently and murmured: "Where did we lose?"
…
"He is here to admonish Feng Jinglong!"
Suddenly, Gao Jingyu, the leader of the Nanjing Engineering Department, led a team of royal guards to the opposite side of the flower boat where Lu Guangzu and Feng Jinglong were, pointing at Feng Jinglong and saying.
After saying that, Gao Jingyu laughed: "Now I'm going to be promoted to the left."
Feng Jinglong was shocked and looked at Lu Guangzu: "Why did you come to Jin Yiwei?"
At this time, two fast boats carrying the Jinyi Guards School Captain were rushing towards Feng Jinglong.
Lu Guangzu sat on the chair dejectedly: "It's broken! Yue Feng must have been captured alive by them!"
"No wonder Xu Huating said that if we really want to reform the system, we should abolish the factory guards and prevent Tiqi from going out. In terms of his practical knowledge left by Zhang Taiyue, we only want the emperor to only respect those who have passed the imperial examination. Isn't it really that bad? Unrealistic?"
"After all, people who cannot take the imperial examination to become scholars also want to be officials, so there will be people who are willing to be the emperor's minions in order to merit the title of official, even at the risk of everything, even their lives. After all, if you lose your life, you can still enter the Martyrs' Shrine. The descendants can also gain the status of loyal orphans and be cultivated by the Heavenly Family! No wonder Wu, Zhao and others wanted to withdraw from Xingming Academy!"
"What are you talking about now? Let's think of a solution quickly."
Feng Jinglong said anxiously.
"What else can you do? If you don't want to be chopped up, just jump into the river and commit suicide."
Lu Guangzu said and walked to the side of the boat.
"good!"
Feng Jinglong agreed, but seeing that Lu Guangzu had only stood by the side of the boat without jumping, he couldn't help but ask: "Have you thought of another way?"
Lu Guangzu said: "This water is too turbid!"
Feng Jinglong: "..."
At this time, the captain of Jinyiwei had already boarded the ship first and detained both Lu Guangzu and Feng Jinglong.
Ye Xian from Baihu came over and said, "You two are indeed here. Gao Gaijian did not lie!"
In order to prevent these scholar-bureaucrats from easily discovering that Jin Yiwei is watching them in advance, Jin Yiwei did not dare to directly place people to keep an eye on you. Instead, he chose to bribe some civil servants who were originally from Jiangnan to arrange for their own slaves to keep an eye on these people.
After all, this is equivalent to local people acting as eyeliners, and it is even harder to detect.
Lu Guangzu then looked at Gao Jingyu and said: "Those who are shameless and shameless are in vain to be called Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats!"
"Is it a gentleman to be a traitor to the barbarians?"
Gao Jingyu, who is different from the school of Lu Guangzu and Feng Jinglong, and belongs to the Practical School, which is different from Lu Guangzu, the empty-talking Xinxing school that worships Buddhism and advocates integrating Buddhism and Confucianism, has always been unable to get along with Lu Guangzu and others, so he chose to cooperate with Jin Yiwei, and At this time, Lu Guangzu was questioned.
Lu Guangzu had no words to refute, he just raised his head and closed his eyes.
…
"Since you have access to the barbarians, needless to say, the master and the accomplices are all Lingchi!"
"Anyone in the clan who knows but does not report it will be killed!"
"And these nine tribes should have been killed, but considering that nowadays the Han people in our country need to kill less and more carefully to show that they are different from the Fanyi, so all the nine tribes are exiled, and they are not allowed to take the imperial examination for three generations! Those who are officials or have honors within the tribe All leather!"
After Zhu Yijun received the report from Dongchang about Lu Guangzu, Feng Jinglong and other Tongyi traitors, he issued his own edict to deal with it.
Shen Shixing and Yang Wei, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, raised their hands and said yes.
Zhu Yijun also looked down at these officials:
"Tell me, these scholar-bureaucrats, many of whom are from scholarly families and have spent their whole lives reading books about saints and sages, how could they get to the point where they don't even care about the justice of the country?!"
"Not to mention instigating people to murder my general, not to mention secretly communicating with the Burmese and barbarians, not to mention taking the initiative to help them become bigger, and inciting the chieftain to rebel against the imperial court. However, the chieftain was unwilling and actually colluded with the foreign barbarians to massacre the chieftain."
"Have they really swallowed the word loyalty into the dog's belly? It can't even compare to some toast!"
"Selfish desires are hard to control. They have failed the emperor's favor, failed the saint, and even failed the glory left by their ancestors!"
"Your Majesty, please calm down and don't hurt the dragon's body because of this. After all, the common people of the country cannot rely on scholars alone, they must be enlightened by the emperor!"
Shen Shixing burst into tears, knelt on the ground and knelt down to worship, and choked with sobs.
Other ruling ministers also knelt down: "Your Majesty, please calm down!"
"Don't let me down again!"
Zhu Yijun put one hand on the armrest of the chair, curled his index finger and rubbed his forehead, then sighed, looked at Shen Shixing and other ministers and said:
"I know that sometimes you can't control whether you are virtuous or unvirtuous, but at least don't do anything stupid! Instead, you want to invite foreigners into China to be your masters. You feel that in this way, you can do whatever you want, even the imperial laws and the national laws. You can ignore it!"
"Invite foreigners to become bigger and even invade China, such as finding yourself foreign parents. But if you think about it carefully, will foreign parents who are not of the same culture and race really be good to you? It will really make the scholars Absolute freedom?”
"Even if it's good, it's just hypocritical. Maybe it will change its face at some point!"
"Don't really think that there will be fools like the Bolzhijin family who will continue to let you steal the country and bully the people! If you can really be a barbarian for the Chinese master, how can you be a simple person? How can you not see the lessons of the Yuan Dynasty? "
Zhu Yijun reprimanded these officials.
